OT: the end of gmane

[Tommy Trussell]

Probably. The web pages all seem to be down. As the owner of gmane says in
the first link:

> I don’t want to make 20-30K mailing lists start having bouncing addresses,
> but I could just funnel all incoming mail to /dev/null, I guess…


I think the comments include several folks hoping to take over the service
in some fashion, but I can imagine that's both a huge responsibility and
quite complicated.

I just looked again at the slashdot comments and found a hopeful posting at
lwn.net

http://lwn.net/Articles/695748/


On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 9:22 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:

> Maybe this explains why I got a bounce from a gmane.org email address?
>
> Tommy Trussell <tommy.trussell at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > For years a lot of folks have come to the gnucash-user email list via
> > gmane.
> >
> > Some may be wondering what happened to it:
> >
> > https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2016/07/28/the-end-of-gmane/
> >
> > More information:
> >
> > https://developers.slashdot.org/story/16/07/28/2059249/the-end-of-gmane
> >
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmane
>